Truck crash in Ethiopia kills 22 people, dozens hurt

The roadworthy mishap injured 65 radical aft the motortruck carrying migrants and asylum seekers overturned successful municipality of Semera, according to section authorities.

At slightest 22 radical were killed, and 65 others were injured aft a cargo motortruck packed with Ethiopian asylum seekers and migrants overturned connected a highway.

The roadworthy mishap took spot successful Semera, successful the country’s bluish Afar region, respective 100 kilometres westbound of neighbouring Djibouti, section authorities reported connected Tuesday.

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“The mishap happened erstwhile a motortruck overturned, which had crowded successful citizens who were misled by amerciable brokers and didn’t recognize the question route’s danger,” the Afar communications bureau wrote successful a connection connected Facebook.

“The determination authorities has been doing each the indispensable life-saving operations since the mishap happened, and astatine the moment, it is making definite that the injured radical get afloat aesculapian attraction astatine Doubtee Referral Hospital. The authorities wishes comfortableness and spot to the families of the deceased, relatives and friends.”

Eastern route

Ethiopia is 1 of the main departure points for the alleged Eastern Route, which asylum seekers and migrants instrumentality to permission the Horn of Africa – countries that marque up eastbound Africa, including Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti – chiefly to find enactment successful Gulf nations.

Thousands of African asylum seekers and migrants instrumentality the way crossed the Red Sea, the bulk of the clip from Djibouti to Yemen, galore successful hunt of enactment arsenic labourers oregon home workers.

Between January and September 2025, determination were 890 deaths and disappearances on the Eastern Route, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported.

Last year’s figures doubled 2024’s decease toll successful the aforesaid play successful what the United Nations organisation referred to arsenic “the highest yearly toll ever documented aft 2022 [882] and 2023 [701]”.

“Tracked outgoing movements on the Eastern Route betwixt January and September accrued by 24 percent, from 283,100 successful 2024 to 351,000 successful 2025, chiefly owed to resumed information postulation successful Yemen, and higher and faster transit flows and shifting routes to evade controls successful Djibouti and Somalia,” the IOM said.

But contempt the precocious casualty figures, the way continues to beryllium popular. According to the IOM, it is the “busiest and riskiest migration way successful the world”.

Still, portion Ethiopia is the second-most populous state successful Africa, with astir 130 cardinal inhabitants, and 1 of the fastest increasing economies, much than 40 percent unrecorded beneath the poorness line, according to the World Bank.